Tuesday, May 5, 2009

MAGS I'M IN/SHAPE YER IN

Hi folks....UPDATES

I am presented in the folio section of the latest issue of Broken Pencil magazine (issue 43). These are some of my Fantasy Beards. I have to think about my next series. Are Fantasy Beards pure escapism and is that such a bad thing? I don't want to be all Synechdone, New York but I feel that I should strive for some sort of meaning. Hmmmm. Or is unhindered creative expression enough with the social commentary leaking out naturally? I did want the beards to be a less stereotypically masculine force, to have identity shifts be fluid and lucid and that ain't no bad thing!

Okay okay. Also I have a very long interview with Neil Hamburger in the latest issue of Hunter and Cook art magazine. We touch on the value of art and entertainment in a recession and lots more! It launches Friday, May 8th 7-12 PM atHUNTER AND COOK15 OSSINGTON AVETORONTOM6J 2Y8416 588 3500

The ish also features art by a collaborator from that July Fourth Toilet band I'm in: Shayne Ehman, and many others, and the launch is also for an art show by the guitarist from that WET DIRT band I'm in, Robin Fry.

I didn't know most of the crowd and a lot of them seemed very drunk which makes me wonder if I had turned anyone to these sounds, if it affected anyone, if there were much social power of music this time around...hmmmm.....

Synechdone is the new Southland Tales which was the new Ang Lee's Hulk which was the new Magnolia and all in all was better than The Fountain and perhaps more meaningful than Masked and Anonymous. All of which are over-reaching films by directors that got too ambitious but I won't fault them for trying! At least they are saying something (The Hulk is my fave superhero movie right after the mid-60s Batman movie)Yes, the last half hour was agonizing but as it dealt in so much that I'd been thinking about/struggling with I can not hate it!

I can not get behind Nickelback' sound and appearance as it gives me a depressed feeling but their lyrics are a hoot! Can you post more of their lyrics on your blog? I didn't know they were so funny!